Thorsten Quaeschning & Ulrich Schnauss – Synthwaves

Thorsten Quaeschning & Ulrich Schnauss (Tangerine Dream) have a new album coming June 30, Synthwaves.

According to the duo, Synthwaves ‘pays homage to the masters of the past….Crisp, interlocking patterns are modulated and mutated with mathematical precision into eight pieces of pristine, post-kosmische sounds to float away to.’

Quaeschning and Schnauss spent two weeks in Berlin, in a studio full of vintage synthesizers, analog sequencers and drum machines, creating an album of pure electronic music.

Here’s what they have to say about the new album:

As with the finest Tangerine Dream soundtracks, it’s the kind of music that paints vivid pictures on the canvas of the listeners mind: synth plucks hang in the air like glaring neon in metropolitan dusk, and zero-gravity pads hover like ghostly morning mist traveling over empty coastlines.

Poly-rhythmic patterns are allowed to build – slowly but steadily – bar after bar, until synth-Satori is reached. By the time the last track on this album runs out, it’s obvious these two producers have themselves become masters of their craft.

Here’s a preview of the new album, Rain On Dry Concrete:

Quaeschning & Schnauss’s new album Synthwaves is available to order now via Bandcamp. There’s a limited vinyl bundle available, featuring an exclusive 10″ EP (contains two tracks, 13 minutes in total) limited to 100 copies.

Only the LP/exclusive* 10″ bundle is sold out (from Azure Vista Records) the remaining 150 copies will be available from TD & Q&S gigs, starting at Tangerine Dream’s concert on June 23 at the Ballhause Rixdorf in Berlin.

During two intense weeks in Berlin, Quaeschning and Schnauss – both students of the great, late maestro Edgar Froese – locked themselves in a studio full of vintage synthesizers, analog sequencers and drum machines, and the result is a gorgeous set of purely electronic music. As the title suggests, a bit of tongue-in-cheek playfullness was allowed during the process – however, all of these pieces sparkle with real emotion and warmth.

As with the finest Tangerine Dream soundtracks it’s the kind of music that paints vivid pictures on the canvas of the listeners mind: synth plucks hang in the air like glaring neon in metropolitan dusk, and zero-gravity pads hover like ghostly morning mist travelling over empty coastlines. Poly-rhythmic patterns are allowed to build – slowly but steadily – bar after bar, until synth-Satori is reached. By the time the last track on this album runs out, it’s obvious these two producers have themselves become masters of their craft.